As I said the corm not only survived but went on to win Best in Show Farrer medals at Alpine Garden Society Shows. The cut was around the edge remember, not over the top where the growing points are.
As an experiment I cut a big hederifolium corm in to 4 equal size pieces, each with a good set of growing points. They survived and grew. I would not recommend it though. I may have been a bit lucky.
Slow-worm said: it was just a standard one from Tescos,
If it was Tesco and if it was large it will be a houseplant. For hardy cyclamen for the open ground you would need a more reliable source.
There are a few hardy cyclamen, all small flowers. I would stick to Cycl. hederifolia and coum for starters. Move on when you have succeeded with these.
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
As an experiment I cut a big hederifolium corm in to 4 equal size pieces, each with a good set of growing points. They survived and grew. I would not recommend it though. I may have been a bit lucky.
I was just about to add the question. "Can you divide a cyclamen corm?"
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Biggest problem seems to be pathogen invasion via the cut surfaces. I think I dipped them in Flowers of sulphur when I did it, but it was along long time ago and I have never bothered with it since then. We have hundreds of Cyclamen seedlings all over this garden now, after 3 years of throwing the seed around from the ones we brought with us when we moved.
I do try to remove the seed pods from the corms otherwise they germinate in situ and you end up with dozens of tiny corms on top of the old ones.
I have done the same as @GardenerSuze ... the ants move the cyclamen seed all over this garden ... after ten years plus of them only being on the Shady Bank, they 've started appearing right across the other side in the veg patch in the past couple of years.
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There are a few hardy cyclamen, all small flowers. I would stick to Cycl. hederifolia and coum for starters. Move on when you have succeeded with these.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
I was just about to add the question. "Can you divide a cyclamen corm?"
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Regarding the ants myth: they don't seem to do what they are supposed to. Or perhaps 1:100.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.